A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v2.c12.s2.93

v2.c12.s2.93

The general rule for the method of adding these suffixes appears to be that the noun undergoes merely euphonic changes of its final vowel, but not constructive changes, and the discussion of them pertains rather to the study of the individual language than to that of comparative grammar. The Old-Hindi and Bengali, and to a certain extent also modern colloquial Oriya, exhibit the beginnings of a tendency to this system, which, happily for those who had to speak the languages, did not get beyond the first stage, namely, using the crude form of the personal pronouns, as in Chand's मो पित “my father,” तो पाई “thy feet,” and in Mod.-Oriya मो घर “my house.” It wanted but the shortening of the vowel and the change of position to load us with forms like घरमु, पिततु, and the rest.